CSEND Perspective
CSEND Approach
Foundations of CSEND Methodology
OD Cycle
Two OD Cycles
OD Method -1
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OD Method -3
Examples
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Design of Capacity Building Project
Learning Process
Critical Mass
A Conceptual Representation
Design of Trade Capacity Building Project in Bolivia
Authors: Lichia Yiu and Raymond Saner
A Negotiation Capacity Building project was implemented in Bolivia in 2000-2001 as part of the National Strategy Study (NSS) of the World Bank. The goal of the NSS Study was to strengthen Bolivia’s participation in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. The subsequent Negotiation Capacity Building project was intended as a further strengthening of Bolivian negotiators’ skills and competencies within the context of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations and the related CDM mechanisms, as well as to strengthen these abilities in other Bolivian public officials not yet integrated in these negotiations and to facilitate their participation into the teamwork of the Bolivian negotiation delegation.
The Negotiation Capacity Building project was financed by the World Bank and the State Secretariat of Economic Affairs (SECO), Switzerland.
NSS Bolivia Project Description
Presentation by Bolivia Delegation and CSEND
Saner, R.; Maidana, I; “Trade Negotiation Case, Analyses, Strategies at
Bilateral, Regional and Multilateral Levels: Bolivia 2000”, Los Amigos del Libro, La Paz, 2001.
Introduction Chapter: Capacity Building in the Field of Global and Regional Trade Negotiations
El Requiem para la Selva Amazonica Op. 10 (1992) for a mixed choir and seven instruments was first performed in Germany in 1993 by Camerata Vocale under the direction of Klaus Braun. Oldrich Halas, of Bolivian and Czech origin, adapted the opera to the Bolivian-Amazon context in 2001. His adaptation of the original Requiem for an Amazon Forest was performed in La Paz, Bolivia, on 26th June 2001 to accompany the book presentation of the same day organised by CSEND. The books’ title is « Negociaciones en Cambio Climático y Ambiente:Dinámica global y local (Climate Change and Environmental Negotiations: Global and Local Dynamics) edited by Raymond Saner, Sergio Jauregui, Lichia Yiu published by Los Amigos del Libro, La Paz, 2001. The opera performance was funded by CSEND.
Oldrich Halas selected a combination of classical and regional musical instruments that were used by the following musicians namely: Flauta:Guillermo Luna, Clarinete en si bemol:Eduardo de la Fuente, Fagot:Mauricio Wayar, Violonchelo:Dunja Garcfa, Piano:Wendy Asturizaga, Tinbales:Israel Conradi. While the group played the opera, the video artist Antonio Suarez projected magnificent images of the Bolivian Amazon regions of Beni and Pando on the walls of the hall where the opera was being played.
CSEND advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London on the design of a strategy to create a network of Business and Training Centres (BTCs) in Russia.
The result of this process is the “Morozov Project”, consisting of over 30 Russian Business and Training Centres (BTCs) which were twinned with foreign organisations to help strengthen the institutional capabilities of the BTCs in areas of management consulting and entrepreneurial training. The mission of each BTC is to help create jobs and contribute to a more vibrant local economy by acting as a business skills training and resource centre. BTC stakeholders include local entrepreneurs, managers of recently privatised companies, and local officials. The ultimate goal of each BTC is to become economically self-supporting, and contribute to the sustainable development of Russia’s economy.
EBRD selected CSEND to “adopt” the Business and Training Centre of the city of Samara, located 1000 kms southeast of Moscow on the Volga river to help modernise its training programmes and consulting business.
CSEND assisted the Samara BTC in developing its capacity to provide training and consulting services to its client system in the areas of:
Specifically, the programme of the Russian-Swiss partnership project comprised the following elements:
After completion of the project, sustainable transfer of new management and consulting skills was made. Samara BTC was able to:
Samara BTC is now in a strong position to effectively contribute to job and enterprise creation in the Samara region.
Yiu, L., Saner, R.; “A Generic Working Model for Building Institutional Capabilities in Central & Eastern European Countries”. Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, Working Paper, 1994.
Saner, R., “The Impact of Policy and Role of Donor Agencies on Small an Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Assistance Projects in Russia” in Trappe P. (Editor), Problembereiche Interdisziplinärer Forschung. Berne: Peter Lang AG, 1999. abstract
The seminar was organized jointly by Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development (CSEND), UNCTAD, Future of the UN Development System (FUNDS) and Business Systems Laboratory.
A newly published book was introduced and a subsequent thematic debate focused on the question whether the current approach to measuring sustainable development is good enough to support sustainable development in developing countries. This debate is part of the larger discourse on Post-2015 sustainable development goals.
Important ideas were discussed such as the need to bring back immediacy and depth to the notion of sustainability; the need to measure comprehensively sustainable development (e.g. the current analytic framework does not measure social sustainability); the interface between individual behavior and institutional rules; the inter-generational aspect of sustainability and its cross-cultural perspective; and the importance of measuring progress towards human development goals.
1- Programme
2- Lichia Yiu
3- Roland Bardy
4- Dr. Friedrich von Kirchbach
5- Amb. Eloi Laourou
6- Mr. Hafiz Mirza
7- Raymond Saner
8- Stephen Browne
Raymond Saner, “Financing the localization of the SDGs through PPPs: Need to assess advantages & disadvantages by local governments”; International Conference on the Localization of the SDGs and the Co-Construction of the Means of Implementation, Yonsei University, South Korea ROK, 23-24 February 2019
International Conference on the Localisation of the SDGs and the Co-Construction of the Means of Implementation , Yonsei University, South Korea ROK, 23-24 February 2019
